QCannot believe I missed the match….not surprised like I said. Good on you JW. Cannot say who did what but hear that Armitage did no favors to himself. Now it’s Toulon who can win the double. If CA cannot win the HC it is highly unlikely they have the strength or the brains orvthe form to even beat Castrs. Without as much of a od, I’ll take Castrs for the upset. Winning the T14 is [...]
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Call me sentimental; call me foolish; call me insane but don’t tell me that I am wrong when I say that if Jonny Sexton and Jonny Wilkinson are the top two out halves in modern rugby then I am that monkey in the previous post….that is impossible. Both of these guys are good and have won silverware to prove it. They are also a couple of the highest paid rugby players on the planet. It [...]
This is the beginning of the story I started to tell yesterday about not being selected and bringing rightfully pissed off about it. Okay…it starts with a wonderful tropical rugby tour to Bermuda. I guess the guy who organized the trip will henceforth be known as the monkey. This monkey was a better than average American player but , in his opinion. .i,e many other monkeys, thought of himself as an international King Kong. What [...]
I had a weird somewhat – of – discussion with colleagues, not friends, regarding the drama of selectors and selections. For the most part, I say with much candor, most selectors at club level are poseurs, but so are many of the players caught up in the drama. This is so true at club level where the importance of these ‘important’ figures is magnified a thousand fold by friends of the selectors and the friendship [...]
As I sit in the only Starbucks in Bumfu*k ,America some pretty not petty thought have sprung forth. Naturally some will be unpleasant but as I have said all along, that is my job. I am the grim reaper. I am the doctor who tells you that you are I’ll and will die. I do not like it at all. So where must I begin? I agree with Matt Burke about Kurtley Beale. The ARU [...]
